French helicopters spray mosquitos
telegraph.co.uk - 21/06/2009

FRANCE - Helicopters are being deployed to spray poison in the skies above northern France to wipe out swarms of mosquitoes that are threatening to cross the Channel into Britain.

EU Reaches Deal on Lisbon Treaty
spiegel.de - 21/06/2009

BRUSSELS - Friday's deal in Brussels paving the way forward for a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland is the most important decision taken in Europe this year. The treaty, which will bring widespread reforms to the European Union and give its institutions greater power, could go into effect before the end of the year.

U.S. Fortifies Hawaii
online.wsj.com - 21/06/2009

WASHINGTON - The US is moving ground-to-air missile defenses to Hawaii as tensions escalate between Washington and Pyongyang over North Korea's recent moves to restart its nuclear-weapon program and resume test-firing long-range missiles.

World hunger 'hits one billion'
BBC - 21/06/2009

ROME - One billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a figure which has increased by 100 million BECAUSE OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS, says the UN. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said the figure was a record high.

'The lights will go out because of this'
dailymail.co.uk - 19/06/2009

UK - Power station workers could walk out AND THREATEN ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES in support of the 900 oil refinery staff sacked over unofficial industrial action. French giant Total wrote to 900 workers at its Lindsey refinery in Lincolnshire, telling them they had until Monday to reapply for their jobs.

The safety rules ruining education
dailymail.co.uk - 19/06/2009

UK - Teachers are being handed five-page guides warning of the dangers of Pritt Stick, fuelling claims health and safety rules are ruining education. Staff told how they had been subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre guidelines to stop schools being sued in the event of an accident.

Gay couple to become fathers
dailymail.co.uk - 19/06/2009

UK - Britain's first gay fathers have announced that they are having a fourth child on Valentine's Day. Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow sparked outrage when they used donated eggs and surrogate mothers in the USA to have their nine-year-old twins Aspen and Saffron and five-year-old son Orlando.

Pepsi and Coke under fire again
BBC - 19/06/2009

INDIA - An Indian non-governmental organisation says samples of Coca-Cola and Pepsi products are showing even worse levels of pesticides than in a previous study. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said their investigations revealed that the drinks contain harmful residues, posing a health risk.

Total sacks 900 oil plant workers
BBC - 19/06/2009

UK - Nearly 900 workers constructing a new plant at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire have been sacked, following unofficial strike action. About 1,200 contract workers walked out last week in a dispute over 51 redundancies.

Eco-warrior evicted from cave
telegraph.co.uk - 19/06/2009

UK - An eco-warrior has been evicted from the cave he lives in on his allotment patch in Brighton, East Sussex, because it doesn't have a fire exit.

First ever trial without jury
telegraph.co.uk - 19/06/2009

UK - A criminal trial is to be heard without a jury for the first time in England and Wales after attempts to prosecute a suspected gang of armed robbers was allegedly hit by jury nobbling.

EU leaders agree on regulatory reform
uk.reuters.com - 19/06/2009

BRUSSELS - European Union leaders agreed in principle on Thursday on tighter rules to supervise banks and on the creation of regional regulatory bodies to help prevent another global economic crisis, EU presidency sources said.

Masses mourn protesters in Iran
BBC - 19/06/2009

IRAN - More than 100,000 people have attended a "day of mourning" rally in Tehran to remember eight people killed while opposing Iran's election result. The rally was called by presidential challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi.

PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly

WASHINGTON - Norfolk-based group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter-in-chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House. PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, A DEVICE THAT ALLOWS USERS TO TRAP A HOUSE FLY AND THEN RELEASE IT OUTSIDE.

E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
nytimes.com - 18/06/2009

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said.

“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Just what is an Apostle?

Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”

The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!

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Listen to Me, You who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My Law: …I have put My words in your mouth, I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, “you are My people” (Isaiah 51:7,16)